Yin and Yang

On this wonderful Spring morning, Atrios points out that there are still Churchmen more concerned with shortening the statute of limitations on child abuse than victim's rights.

Some pretty powerful ones at that.

This brings to mind Jeff Wells and his theories about the underground Luciferian wing of the Church.

It's all about "them".
It ain't about "us".

Here's a concept that shifted my paradigm: It's of no concern whether I think something ridiculous; what matters is, do they? And do they, really?

For instance, I used to have no consideration for secret societies. Why would I? Old boys in aprons, the Templars, Skull and Bones and "Jahbulon" - so what? The subject seemed as serious as The Simpsons' musical question, "Who made Steve Guttenberg a star?" It meant nothing to me.

But then, it's not all about me, is it? And self-evidently, secret societies, and the secrets they keep, matter a great deal to many who hold authority over us...

Jeff goes a good bit beyond reality in my region of the multiverse, but he has some interesting things to say.

The problem with fundamentalist christianity- protestant or catholic- is that it requires an Adversary.

Although real Wiccans are often good people, at least as much as real Christians, the power structure of the Church has historically made it create an other.

Certainly the Wiccan faith is no more or less based in reality than Christianity is.

But Luciferians? As the Church practiced it in the Middle Ages, and even now? Not Wiccan at all, not really Christian either, but a twisted version of religion and self centered human passion.